Buildings account for significant carbon dioxide emissions, both in construction and operation. Governments around the world are setting targets and legislating to reduce the carbon emissions related to the built environment, which arises from the consistently high energy performance.
The objective of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the environment and growth nexus in Cote d’Ivoire and assess the EKC hypothesis for CO2.The analysis is extended to investigate the long run relationship between CO2 emissions and Agricultural Value Added, Industrial as well as Services Value Added. The data used ranged from 1960 to 2015. An ARDL model is used to assess long run relationship between CO2 emissions and per capita GDP. We found that CO2 emissions and per capita GDP are not cointegrated.
Child malnutrition is globally the highest risk factor for illness and death. It contributes to more than half of deaths in children worldwide. Children who lose their parents may face many hardships including food insecurity and poor child care resulting into malnutrition. However, in Kenya and the entire sub-Saharan Africa the problem of orphan-hood is expected to increase in the coming years due to more deaths from HIV/AIDS and other disasters. The objective of the study was to evaluate the intervention strategies used to enhance nutritional status of orphans in Kakamega County.
Analysis of severalseismic profiles resulting from 2D seismicr eflection allowed to study structural basis of Abidjan margin (Côte d’Ivoire) during lower Cretaceous. The principal structural features, normal faults, tilted blocks, grabens, listricfaults and structures in "flower" and "ponytail", observed mainly in Albia sedimentary series indicate that this region of Ivorianmarg in results from geological historypolyphase in connection with both large scaled extral strike movement and distension.
In great development of the Brazilian economy is largely due to coffee, and the country is one of the main producers of the fruit. The first coffee plant was brought from the French Guianas and its cultivation started in Belém. The spread of the fruit to the whole national territory was fast. The valorization of the fruit is made through its quality that is defined with a set of chemical, physical and sensory properties.
Grazing exclusion is increasingly practiced in most grassland ecosystems of the world and is the key management aspect to restore degraded grasslands. This review is initiated to explore the contribution of grazing exclusion in increasing ecosystem carbon sequestration. This review includes research findings from almost all types of terrestrial grassland ecosystems in the world. It produces conclusion from recently conducted research findings regarding the importance of grazing exclusion on biomass and soil carbon stock.
This study was carried out to investigate the role of microfinance in improving agricultural production in Wad Elhillew locality, Kassala state, Sudan. The simple random sample was adopted to select 105 farmers in the study area. A structured questionnaire was used for primary data collection. Descriptive analysis used to display the socio-economic characteristics of respondents, multiple regression and T-test were also used to test the relationships between some variables.
On-farm research on profitability of maize (Zea mays, L.) production in the Northern Region of Ghana was conducted in five districts during 2014 and 2015 cropping seasons. Research fields were laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design with 16 treatments and three replications. Treatments consisted of control (T1), synthetic fertilizer treatments alone (T2, T3, T4, T5, T10, T11, T12, and T13), synthetic fertilizers and poultry manure treatments (T6, T7, T8, T9, T14, and T15), and T16 (only Sulphate of Ammonia as topdressing).
Pesticides directly and indirectly alter the aquatic organism’s tissue biochemistry and physiology. These pesticides are posing a great threat to aquatic fauna especially to fishes, which constitute one of the major sources of protein rich food for mankind. Lambda cyhalothrin is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide used in agriculture field to control pests and increase yield. This chemical mainly affects the stomach wall and central nervous system which damage the nervous transmission. Observing the biochemical factors led to the identifications of various effects produced by the toxicants.
Objective: Soils in Burkina Faso are mostly characterized by their poverty in organic matter and nutrients. Several sources of organic matter were studied in Burkina Faso, but few scientific results are available on the use of neem (Azadirachtaindica). The current study was initiated to evaluate the effect of neemseed cake (NSC) on lowland rice productivity. The experimental design was a randomized blocks design established in Manzourin 2017.